It’s funny (but not really) how people confuse their selfish behavior with liberty while operating a dangerous machine in a public place, a machine that has hundreds of components regulated by the oppressive government, not to mention the freedom limiting road rules such as having to drive on the right side of the street. Imagine that!
Infantile fools!
Liberty is about accepting risk. That is what liberty is.
Gubment school educated sheeple learned to sit when the bell rings. Stand when the bell rings. Pee when the bell rings. The textbooks are arranged with cool little end of chapter quizzes. quizzes that nicely, chronologically follow the chapter. Tests are created from the end of chapter quizzes. Everything is highly predictable and controlled.
So these same little urchins grow up to vote. What do they demand? A highly predictable, risk adverse environment. They are willing to create a world full of cops, guns, courts, judges to get what they want.
Big solutions needs big gubment. So an infrastructure is built that can impose it’s will on the daily behavior of a country that spans a continent and has 300,000,000 people. I wonder what this infrastructure of control will be used for by future people with less scruples than you.
People also tend to assume everyone around them is just as limited in ability as they are. If you don’t feel you can safely use a phone and drive, then don’t. But there are quite a few people out there who are far more safe on the road with a cell phone up to their ear than some drivers without a cell phone.